cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6018317

Hello World!

As we’ve all known and talked about quite a lot, we previously blocked several piracy-focused communities. These communities, as announced, were:

In our removal announcement, we stated that we will continue to look into this more in detail, and re-allow these communities if and when we deem it safe. It was a solid concern at the time, because we were already receiving takedown requests as well as constant attacks, and didn’t want to put our volunteer team at risk. We had zero measures in place, and the tools we had were insufficient to deal with anything at scale.

Well, after back and forth with some very cool people, and starting to have proper measures as well as tooling to protect ourselves, we decided it’s time to welcome these communities back again. Long live the IT nerds!

We know it’s been a rough ride with everything, and we’d like to thank every one of you who were understanding of us, and stayed with us all the way. Please know that as users, you are what makes this platform what it is, and damned we be if we ever forget it.

With love, and as always, stay safe in the high seas!

Lemmy.world Team

❤️

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    So they finally realized the person that convinced them to block the piracy subs was an idiot transphobic troll who was unhealthily obsessed with defending bungie, a faceless game corporation that needs no defense?

    Shocker.

    • Gamey@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Don’t try to tell them in their “community”, lemmy.world users are as nasty as always!

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Still don’t trust them, they recently censored the fosscad community without announcement or warning.

  • SUKKONDIS@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Great news, that’s a whole lot of people having access to this community again!

  • Dom Poose@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I’m curious what the takedown requests were citing, those communities don’t really host pirated material, they just share links and info.

    • Brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      There weren’t any, it was just a troll account that asked admins at a bunch of different Lemmy instances to block anything related to piracy. Lemmy.world admins took the bait. Even in the original announcement they never mentioned anything about dealing with tons of takedown requests. In other words they were blocking piracy related content preemptively before any takedowns occurred.

      It’s nice they walked back that decision but I’m still not going to create an account there.

  • hottari@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I used to have an account on that woke instance. Left the dumpster fire for lemmy.ml. Not going to entertain obvious censorship on Lemmy.

      • hottari@lemmy.mlEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Just a free-minded individual with strong views about freedom of speech & censorship.

        • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          You are entitled to your views, but please don’t turn this post into a political discussion. If you want to talk about your political opinions, there are plenty of communities for that topic. [email protected] is not one of those communities. Thanks and have a good day.

            • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Yes, so people in our community are aware of the ‘unremoval’, not to hate on lemmy.world. It’s a move in the right direction and personally I’m glad they took this step. Everyone is so tribal nowadays, just chill.